"The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Thinking Quotes #Smell Quotes #Safe Quotes

“The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a matter of days, you can surely come to the aid of your own citizens in a shorter order of time.”

Source : "Real Time with Bill Maher (Episode #4.13)". Talk-Show, August 25, 2006.
“If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.”
“Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.”

Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1899). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages, and a Complete Alphabetical Index”
“Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the great European paintings of the past - the background in my work does not play a passive role.”
“There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous. Some of them are not known even in their own countries, but when you come across them you are very impressed. Those are heroes or heroines we must never forget. Because of their service to society, you can't really help but admire them.”
“entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ...”
“I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.”

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